Ligonier Banner., Volume 83, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 October 1949 — Page 2

A Page of Opinion: f , e LIGONIER BANNER T T CeaD a 0 o g 15 Mwfi’mq

This is our view: ' Little Use For A-Bomb Naturally everyone Saturday is wondering what he should do about the -atom bomb. @ e 4 = " The best possible advice to follow is—don’t buy one now on a rising market. * Why have one around the house at all? You can’t tune in a baseball program on it like you can on a television set. It's too heavy t 6 throw at a cat and too big to fire at a burglar. And the resale or trade-in value of a used bomb is practically zero. : Nope, you might as well turn the whole matter over to the international diplomats of the United Nations, whose theme song is: “You Show Me Your Stockpile, and I'll Show You Mine.” I think the average man will be glad to let it go at that. For he has become bored to death with the atom bomb. He is annoyed at seeing what was to be the Century of the Common Man turned into the Century of he Big Firecracker. And he isn’t happy to know that the $64 question of his generation well.may be, “Where do we blow from here, boys?” The plain truth is that the atomic era to date has been nothing but an affront to the dignity of man. It has been a goose-pimply period ever since the mortal mushroom shadowed Hiroshima. It has been a time of scare, fear and .crisis—East and West. »

~ Have the Russians solved the secret of the atom bomb? Wel, there is good reason to believe yes. But what if they have? People weary of fear, and mankind is running out of goose pimples. . Abraham Lincoln is reported once to have been.challenged to a duel. Given the choice of weapons, he immediately suggested “Shotguns at five paces.” His opponent wisely dropped the matter. ‘Today a duel with atom bombs could be as mutually deadly to nations as a shotgun would be to two individuals. Atom bombs can be delivered by plane, ship, submarine or rocket—every way except by parcel post. All nations that took part in any such merry warfare would suffer, and the casual-ties-would be measured by entire cities rather than platoons. / Imagine the communiques:

“A joint force of Allied bombers today attacked and wiped out Minsk, according to plan. Our interceptor fighters engaged an enemy flight over the Eastern seaboard and shot down 50 planes. Boston is missing.” . Four years ago 1 toured stricken Nagasaki, a black scar in the hills. Room by room I explored a shattered concrete and steel modern hospital in which every patient had been killed. But the dead had been carted away by then, stacked, doused with gasoline and burned. What impressed me most were the windows—the glass had melted and run like dribbles of candle wax. | There is much wise talk about how to protect yourself in the event of atom warfare. The experts agree that dispersal is fine. But they don’t explain how a man who owns a delicatessen store off Broadway can move it to a cow pasture in Wisconsin and still sell enough sandwiches to make his living, Actually about all' the ordinary ecitizen in any country can do about the atom bomb is to dislike it—and pray that nobody blows a bugle. | ‘ : —Hal Boyle:

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word “success,” you find that it simply means to follow through.—F. W. Nichol. :

A Newspapers Duty to the Public To acquaint the people of the community with conditions as they exist, ‘ To acquaint them with what other communities are doing .in the field of civic planning. To awaken them to the possibilities of their city. ' To create within the people the civic pride which will eventually turn these possibilities into realities. g i : —Pittsburg Post-Gazette

Ligonier Banner Established in 1867 - Published every Thursday by the Banner Prinflnéq : - Company at 124 South Cavin St. ' - Telephone: one-three - CALHOUN CARTWRIGHT, Editor and Publisher Ligonier, Indiana under the act dMuch 3, 1879, . Advertising Federation of America .~ Prgting Industry of America =

MUSINGS OfF AN EDITOR e . Calhoun CariWrigh't

BRIEFIES: A sense of humor is a valuable thing, but the lack of it causes untold difficulties which could be easily avoided. Frankly, I never saw a person chosen as the butt of a joke who wasn’t liked by the jokester. People just don’t kid people they dislike. :

The vaudville show, which was well received, kept the musicians the busiest to date. Will Sack playing “The Glory Road” was the toughest musical assignment in his long career. Dick Smith sang it as if he had had years of practice. : \ : ;

No publicity is ever given a stage crew, but my admiration went out to Don Freeman and Clyde Eubank, who together handled the many changes without a hitch. o

While on the subject of the Ligonier Players, it-might be well to mention their recent formation of a workshop group, which will display its wares once a month in the Library. The one act plays to be‘given will be free to members. No one else will be admitted. Bill Greenebaum is now working on the October production, which will herald a new phase in the life of our Players group.

From “The History of Orange Township” recently published to aid Rome City’s celebration, is a quotation from The ‘Banner written by W. W. Skillen in 1875. It read, “M. F. Owen (author of the book), our railroad agent and telegraph manager, is one of the most mind-your-owns-business kind of men we have ever seen or met. Mr. Owen is always at his post, night or day, honest, industrious and temperate. He has supplied himself with a pretty organ and often discourses sweet strains of musie. He is never seen in rough company, and it is said that although he is very good natured, even the most side splitting joke cannot provoke him to smile. Rome City justly feels proud of this man.”

Mr. Owen commented that the reason he stayed close to the station night and day was because he lacked the clothes to attend social functions.

If our present station crew would get an organ and play “sweet strains of music,” I'd be a more active visitor of the station, that you can bet.

My desk is about in the constant state of confusion that is Fibber Mecgee’s closet, and like the Fibber, I'm always going to do something about it. Most people look at it with great disgust (including the lady who sits across from me-, but my good intentions always evaporate into nothing, One person commented that a clean, orderly desk at The Banner would indicate [ had left my post. Not wanting to create any such feeling, I strengthfully avoid the job of tidying up.

The Men’s Fellowship League, which is held at the Presbyterian Chureh, but is strictly nonesectarian, recently announced thgir program for the year. It looks likeg slam-bang season worthy of any man’s time, Bob Kidd, who must get the services of th North Manchester Rotary : Quartet, says they’ll be there this time if they have to come from Sturgis. : _

- Eldon Smith tells some interesting stories of Belgium he picked up during his war stay in that country, which we can’t print due to some silly post office regulations. We do, however, recommend a trip to Seagly’s for a storytelling hour. : b

It’s not my purpose to use this column as an advertising medium, nor do 1 want to hurt the business of any advertisers, but I ean’t resist telling all pop-corn lovers (I'm at the head of the list) about the extra-special corn raised on the farm of Fred Geiger. Perhaps he doesn’t want to be bothered, but I'd like to suggest to the grocers in Ligonier that they: stock his particular variety. It’s the best I've had to date.

- And i’ust in the way of a closing remark, 1 suppose you have heard the new definition of a stenographer which goes, “A girl you pay to learn to spell while she is looking for a husband.”

ABOVE THE | £ ay tyma --; : ? w-’ (3 5 = 4 ' \/I's* n‘:\fi \ ‘“ 1‘;;)\ BRAWLS SUCH as OCCURRED &F at Peekskill,, New York, re- ' ‘eently never accomplish much and give the riot-loving Communists . an excuse for the bloody disturb“‘ances which they are constantly inciting. It may of course amuse “the public to read that:such people ~ as Vito Marcantonio, Paul ‘Robeson, Benjamin J. Davis and the Civil Rights Congress consider® such affairs a “‘shocking act of fascist vio-

lence,” but a laugh‘is about all the

value this disturbance had—unless it will suggest to some of the dumb minds of our Stalin boot-

lickers that the American people may be beginning to awake to their terrible danger. i L

Now this fellow Robeson is

reported to have sald “I am not going to be frightened by any Legionnaires. They had better be careful.” This should put an end to anti-Robeson demonstrations, for we feel ecertain that our ex-army will be terrified into silenice! But joking aside—what are we Amerfcans going to do about people who come over here and then try to destroy us? Or about native citizens who do the same thing? Are we going to continue to tolerate this fast growing treason?

Do we even. yet understand what Communist control of this country would mean? Do we realize that it would mean subservience to a small group of Slavs who operate from Moscow? Do we digest what is happening to Tito and Yugoslavia because they insisted upon Tetaining the national independenca of their nation?

Heaven knows we have hadi some fairly inferior political bosses. But we elected thcm . ourselves and we oust them when we wish. (Until now) But if these Asiatics ever get control of this country because we the people did not insist upon the incarceration of their agents—there will be no elecctions, only fear and obedience to the slant-eyed mass-murder-ers who half rule the world already. ~

You know how to stop it, fellowcitizen, before it is too late. Just one letter, maybe, to your congressman. You owe it to your children. They may lose their freedom—even their lives—because of our stupid conceit that ‘‘it can’t happen here.”

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By LYN CONNELLY As FRANK SINATRA struck his & peak during the war, the States began hearing of aGI over-

seas, dubbed by ‘his army pals ‘“The G.I. Sinatra,” ‘who had a terrific voice, good looks and plenty of personality . . . News came across of his discovery in the army by Glemn Miller, late and great orchestra leader, and " that the English prin-

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cesses, Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, were among his devoted fans « « » The fellow’s name was Johnny Desmond and when he was given his service discharge, Johnny's name loomed just as large here. It was a happy choice then that “Breakfast Club,”” ABC’s popular variety show, made in choosing Johnny to replace Jack Owens when the latter left the program due to other commitments . . . It was a break for radio fans, for the show and for Chicago . . . Any way you look at it he was a natural choice, not only because he’s popular with both men and:women but because he is a family man, proud of his daughters and completely wrapped up in his home, always good news to followers of “Breakfast Club,” a typical *family” show. - SR .

Johnny is young (28), handsome and_verycnual...nothm phoney about him . . . He’s frank and modest, two assets rare in a singer of his stature . , , He's delighted with his new assignment because he “loves to sing early in the morning . . . that’s the only time to sing” . . . Actually he wasn’t discovered as an amateur by Miller, since he had been with Bob Crosby’s orchestra as a vocalist prior to his enlistment In the flmy...WMvum" piano and tap dances, although in an amateur capacity and for bis own amusement, ;

‘He .plays piano now only when the mood strikes him , , . He is happy that his eldest daughter, Diane, 3, has the same knack for music as he . . . She already sings and dances and soon she'll be taking piano lessons, too . , . As it is, she picks the keys carefully after ber daddy now. ;

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HRADCINE NS @i week ‘&3 caused members of congress ‘%o stop, look and listen and to attempt to gauge axew the economie condition of the country and what to do to meet those conditions.

Chiet among the top news items which interested leaders were:

I—Statement of Thomas B. Meccabe, - chairman of the federal reserve board, that retail prices are lagging too far behind wholesale price cuts. i

2—Decision of the president’s steel fact-finding board that a fourth-round wage lincrease for workers is economically unsound, but that a complete pension and welfare fund should be granted by management. =

3—Warning of Secretary of Agriculture Brannan that farm production is rapidly building up surpluses which under the price support law will force millions of dollars of government -purchase. 4—Statement of the president’s board of economic advisors at for the first time since October, 1948, industrial production arose for the month - ~of August coupled with the census bureau report that civilian employment rose to 50,847,000

" the same month, the highest ~for the year, but about 1,300,000 under the record high of a Observers see in these somewhat conflicting reports the end of cur-| rent deflation and a levelling off of the economic picture, but justification for the charge that prices must come down it wages are to remain at their present levels; 1 - Probably the ..#wost . imporfant conference yet to be held on international affairs is :the series of J talks now going. on between «British, Canadian and United States officials over the /crisis in the British economic situation. Isola-l tionist newspapers and a handful df isolationists yet remaining in congress have made ‘a lot of noise to the effect that this country is paying for operation of the British socialist government. All of which observers who are informed say is not true. These observers also point out that the people generally are not well informed over what collapse of the British government at this time would mean to our own ' They point out that economie British, are agreed that unless

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_ these is prompé actien, & major British economio cellapse is - inovitadle. Such a oollapee would no¢ enly adversely affect our oWwa cconomy, but would -virtually nullify action to date of the Marshall plan and play inte the hands of the Soviet governmend, Such a ocollapse - also would weakem the alliance of western European nations which we enly recently joined, tional security ae well ap our economio security. President will come to the rescue of the 5 s 10 el s o 1y there is"a general meeting of ~ would affect U 8. almost as - asdversely as Britain itseif. There has been no agreement - however on the course United . States aid should take. ; .. Political leaders in both parties are beating the drums over the race this fall between former Gov. ‘Herbert Lehman and Sen. John Foster Dulles for the New York

-senatorship as a preview of what -may happen in 1950 congressional elections. Lehman, an experienced campaigner on the Democratic side, is pitted against Dulles, making his tirst political race but well steeped in politics from the sectrity of his corporation law office. Apparently none. of the large farm organizations is wholeheartedly in favor of the compromise Anderson farm bill now pending in the senate. They have thrown their ‘support behind the measure as the lesser of several evils, or supposed ‘evils,. in the Gore bfil. the Aitken law and the Brannan plan. . - - For Instance, the National - JGrange has endorsed the An- ~ derson compromise over other plans because it includes coss of farm labor in determining parity - and permiis greater ‘llexibility in support schedules. On the other hand Charles Shu‘man, president ot Illinois agricultural association and a director of the American fazm bureau federation testified that while the farm bureau regards the Anderson bill a move inthe right direction inclusion of labor costs in the parity formula is not. desirable. He said inclision of labor cost in computing parity would tend to raise parity levels in good times and depress them in adverse times, which is not good for farming. == : S oo e B ® G

fl_\ on l A w e By REV, ROBERT H. HARPER

~ The Moral Basis for True Worship . _Lessom for October 9; Isaiah 1:1118; Jeremiab 7:3-7 ~ : Memory Selection: lsaiah 1:16-17 THE WHOLE OF LIFE proceeds ‘upon symbolism. Language and mathematics and religion all use symbols. Words are the signs of thought, figures the signs of numbers, and form and ceremonies the means of worship. But when a symbol conveys no meaning—to the man who cannot read, to the man who cannot add two and two. and to the man who does not know the meaning of a religious symbol, symbolism is worthless, Isaiah makes it plain that God ~will abomlpata rites and ceremonfes when they are: nothing but a

meaningless performance. Men must- cleanse themselves and put away the evil of their doings when they come into the Lord’s courts to worship. That they can do this is Indicated in Isaiah 1: 18. Sins like scarlet can be washed away when men truly call upon God. = Jeremiah also urges the people to amend their evil ways and so come before God that he will look with favor upon them and enable them to remain in the land which he- had given unto their fathers. Alas! they would not heed, and soon the nation fell into ruin—the people were carried into exile and the land laid waste, So may we beware of mere lip service and escape formalism, using the ritual of our worship, whether simple or elaborate, as the means of expressing thanksgiving, adoration, praise, and the cnse of need in the presence of the Heavenly Father.

+ : » | REMEMBER... From Mrs. Minnie Gring of Mt . Morris, Mich.: *“I remember when I was going to achool in the eountry, that water was passed around to the scholars in a big tin pail with a tin dipper. Someone, usually the teacher's pet,- would bring & to each desk and we’'d all take a drink from the dipper. We had no fear of germs.” Froem Mrs. Grace Breidenow of Les Angeles: ““I remember when we baked all cakes, pies and bread outdoors in a bake oven . . . when my grandmother made tallow candles in a mold ~ . . when my uncle sheared our sheep with hand

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shears . . . when we bought unbleached muslin by the bolt and laid & on the grass to dampen and to bleach #t.”

From Mrs. Mary Stewart of Chi.eage: *I remember when every parior had at least two crayon portraits of Grandma and Grandpa ornately framed and standing on an easel. There usually was an elaborate scarf knotted and thrown over the corner for effect.” From Mra, Carrie Addy of Peru, In.: “I remember when we jused to thrash the amall grain by borse power. A tumbling rod was connected to the separator that theashed the grain as the herses would turn and the horses had to step over it each time around. One ‘man stood upon the center of the ~power with a ‘whip in hand to keep the horses going. It was just like going around a ‘- miniature race 2 u.ck..l i % A

(How about your fond memories of days gone by, folks? Next time you're in a reminiscent mood, why not translate your nostalgia into a

contribution to this eolumn? Send yours today to Mr. Friendly, Box 30, Frankfort, Ky.) |

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